Dr Peter Leary

Working within the Institute's
'vulnerability' theme, Peter Leary's new research project, 'Edgy states and boundary
crossers', is a history of international borders since the end of the First
World War. Informed by his ongoing primary research interest in the Irish case
study, it will explore the ways in which interactions with and at their edges -
and the anxieties to which they gave rise - have shaped the histories of peoples
and polities from the new nation states of interwar Europe to Brexit Britain
and Donald Trump.

Peter Leary studied history at Goldsmiths' College,
University of London, the University of Ulster at Magee in Derry and Queen's
University Belfast. Before joining the Institute of Advanced Studies, he was the
Canon Murray Fellow in Irish History at the University of Oxford. He is the
author of Unapproved Routes: histories of
the Irish border, 1922-1972 (Oxford University Press, 2016), winner of the
American Conference for Irish Studies' Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished
First Book and shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize.